Show STRIKES SPREADING IN GREAT BRITAIN Up Tie-Up of Passenger Traffic in London Threatened Dublin Dublin Dub Dub- lin un Storm Center i I LONDON I ONDON Sept 18 Despite the in intervention intervention in- in Lj of ot tho the lord ma mayor or which led the Bus company to concede concede con con- n- n cede the tho right figh t of ot the men to wear union badges a general strike of tho the traction employees is still sun imminent on the issue of recognition of tho the union The failure of the tho executive board of the National Railway union either to endorse or repudiate the tho sympathetic strike of ot tho the freight handlers has re relieved relieved ro- ro tho the danger danSer of a national strike for tor tho the moment but this action has brought about a worse condition at both Liverpool and Birmingham The Birmingham strikers adopted a resolution condemning the executive board and reiterating their demand for tor fora a 3 national strike In Dublin additional firms closed down toda today What little work ork was done at the docks was under police pro pro- Many strikers are on the verge or of starvation The strike of ot the Dublin transport workers here Is believed by some observers observers observers ob ob- ob- ob servers to indicate tho the birth throes of ot otan an Irish labor party destined to wipe out many of or the traditional lines of cleavage age in the political religious and Industrial life Ute of ot Ireland The master mind of tho the street car carmen's carmen's mens men's side of tho the controversy James Larkin is II a picturesque character who Imbibed his union principles while working in the steel mills of 0 the tho United States The situation Is becoming graver in Manchester lanchester If It the tho carters fulfill their threat to strike traffic will come to a complete standstill The only Item to the credit of ot in industrial industrial industrial in- in peace today was an agreement on the basIs basla for tor a settlement of ot the London Condon building trades strike |